People generally love Bethesda’s Fallout games these days, but the announcement of Fallout 3 apparently led to some quite serious death threats.
Despite not receiving a mainline entry since 2015 with Fallout 4 (I’d argue 2018’s Fallout 76 is more of a spinoff given its online focus), the series is doing quite well for itself at the moment. Tons of people are playing all of the games, and sales for Fallout 4 are up a ridiculous 7500% in Europe at the moment. That’s obviously because of Amazon’s recent live-action adaptation of the beloved video game series, which has thrust the games back into the spotlight. The show itself is doing well too, as season 2 has already been confirmed. However, things weren’t always peaches and cream when it comes to Bethesda’s approach to the Fallout world.
In a recent video from Fallout 3 and 4 creature designer Jonah Lobe, the artist who is in part responsible for what the Deathclaw looks like these days, shared quite plainly that following the announcement of Fallout 3, the studio received a lot of death threats. “When it was announced that Bethesda was going to take on the Fallout franchise there was a lot of excitement, a lot of enthusiasm, and a lot of death threats,” Lobe explained.
